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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Harris Poll and CIT Group, a provider of commercial lending and leasing services, recently released the results of a survey they conducted on how middle-market retailers felt about their sector’s financial health. This was followed by social media presence and digital marketing, with 57 percent and 50 percent, respectively.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Facebook is gearing up to enter the hardware market with Portal, its video chat device aimed at Amazon’s Echo. Facebook is reportedly looking to market Portal at a price of $499, but could go lower to spark demand. A formal announcement about the device is planned for May.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

That’s one of the conclusions from a poll of top marketers from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. According to Moorman, marketers look at traditional accounting metrics, such as sales or profits. The very best metrics to use in marketing are the forward-looking ones,” Moorman said. One explanation?

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The panel of judges — Scarlett Sieber of BBVA; Sam Maule of Carlisle & Gallagher; Ryan Falvey of the Center for Financial Services Innovation; Matt Wilcox of Fiserv; and Phil Ryan of Bank Innovation — will decide which company is worthy of the “Best in Show” DEMOvation crown at Bank Innovation 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Venture capitalists are funding new entrants to the field, and features like authenticity guarantees, postings to social media, the use of data and post-sale services could propel the industry forward, according to a new report from Fung Global Retail & Tech. Smaller firms are growing quickly and making gains in the market.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

FreedomPay said it is “rapidly expanding on a global scale” in such markets as retail, eCommerce, hospitality and food and beverage. Of course in recent years, bots have been given a bad name, due to Russian bots bombarding social media outlets during the 2016 election. Before, they were limited to one or two areas.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

In fact, the old-fashioned form of outdoor advertising is winning over digital marketing heavyweights and finding ways to thrive in the online world. Amid data sharing and online privacy controversies, Facebook recently promoted on billboards what Bloomberg called the social media operator’s “new approach to user safety and privacy.”

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world. Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

is currently testing two new advertising tactics — deep linking and auto-fill — to boost its social commerce capabilities. Deep linking allows marketing agencies to run interactive, direct response ads on Snapchat whereby users can swipe, tap, etc., Stateside, however, social commerce has been a tougher sell.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The region’s internet economy is projected to become a $278 billion market by 2025 , with immense growth expected in all online sectors, but especially in mobile payments as companies across the region invest more in digital infrastructure. says market research firm GlobalWebIndex.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2021

Eager to turn the ongoing fintech boom into an advantage, big tech companies (Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon) have been taking a number of strategic steps to grow their market share in financial services. social media, communication), giving tech giants more incentive and leverage to keep their financial offerings in-house.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

Commerce marketing automation software Bronto’s Senior Product Manager, Matt Davis, commented to Retail Dive about the impact chatbots are having on the customer service industry alone: “This really represents a shift now to where chat is starting to become the center of this kind of brand or product retailer interaction, directly with the customer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Bitfinex announced a reward for anyone who can put the cryptocurrency exchange in touch with the hackers who made a transfer of nearly 120,000 bitcoins in 2016, according to a statement. “The aggregate rewards available under this program could be worth up to approximately $400 million,” according to the statement.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

While Shop Party is designed to be a social shopping experience, it is only the latest iteration of a broader trend that is seeing the increased use of live-streamed video to motivate consumers. New Uses For Existing Tech . Bridging The In-Person Gap. According to Vimeo, there were more than 1.1

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

According to the digital retailer, the firm made the expansion as a result of shoppers’ social media behavior and feedback. ModCloth says the decision was inspired in part by shoppers’ behavior on social media. The expansion also follows staffing upgrades in the San Francisco based fashion startup.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 20, 2017

Courtesy of a new partnership with the Bombay Stock Exchange, Sentifi will begin providing Asia’s first (“and fastest”) stock exchange with social media updates on 40,000 stocks, currencies, and commodities from around the world.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We know almost US$1 billion was invested in PSD2-enabled services in 2016, up 200 percent from the year before¹. The drive towards open banking gives them a direct line into a potentially lucrative market. And, crucially, it’s a market where they’re well placed to deliver the flexible, personalized experiences consumers demand.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

A new study shows that social media and online marketplace scams are much more successful than phone scams. Since 2016. Marcus, a consumer bank launched in 2016 and run by Goldman Sachs, has lost a total of $1.3 Visa Powers Revolut’s Global Expansion Into 24 New Markets. Goldman’s Marcus Has Lost $1.3B

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. BNPL providers are seeing market growth and new funding opportunities. Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

The social media giant aims to leverage Reliance Jio to expand its presence in the Indian digital market as the country experiences a digital transformation. The wireless carrier, which was founded by multibillionaire Mukesh Ambani in 2016, has shown that it can compete with U.S. tech firms in the Indian market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

With social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at its heels, this will prove to be a tough goal to reach and maintain. million | Revenue reported in 2016. 158 million | Users reported in Q4 of 2016. million | Reported 2016 net loss. 1.05 | Revenue per user in 2016. Here are the numbers: $404.5

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APRIL 29, 2020

Facebook considers India to be one of its biggest markets and “reaffirmed” its commitment to India earlier in April, said. The social media giant invested $5.7 The wireless carrier was founded by multibillionaire Mukesh Ambani in 2016. billion to acquire a 9.99 percent stake.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2018

In markets like Australia, this is already happening. National Australia Bank set up its own alternative lending arm called QuickBiz Loans back in 2016. Over the […].

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

The social media site’s users largely haven’t changed their privacy settings in the weeks since the scandal came to light, Facebook vice president of global marketing solutions Carolyn Everson said at The Wall Street Journal CEO Council in London. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Bebo began in 2005 as a social networking platform by Michael and Xochi Birch. It was said to have become “the market leader” in some countries such as Ireland and the U.K. The growth path of the company in addition to the larger opportunity in social media helped it get acquired by AOL for approximately $850 million in 2008.

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William Mills

AUGUST 23, 2016

William Mills Agency, the nation’s largest independent public relations and content marketing firm to the financial industry, has been named agency of record for FinTech Forward 2016, a program offered by American Banker and BAI Beacon. We are proud to be associated with this effort.”.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 19, 2016

Kevin Tynan, a regular American Banker contributor , recently penned an article: Digital Bank Marketing, It's All About the Content. He cited a recent survey that found content marketing ranks as companies' most significant digital marketing trend for 2016. See the ad in my Facebook feed today. Google Cloud.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2017

A byproduct of incorporating connectivity into just about any activity is how social media affects regular interactions. It can be difficult to discuss the digital effects without looping in social media. For the Chinese buyer in particular, social media engagement and online shopping activities takes on a unique avenue.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2016

We can all agree Credit Karma, Chase Mobile, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PayPal aren’t leaving the Top Ten on App Annie anytime soon. But ratings and rankings aren’t everything — there’s also the cool factor. How easy is the app to use? Does it makes us feel good (even Read More.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

The auctions are designed to allow bidders access to cost-per-thousand impressions ad inventory – previously Pinterest (like most other players in social media) was selling CPM ads at a fixed price.

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MAY 29, 2018

technological might when it comes to social media, eCommerce and the digital world. One of the attitudes behind all that smack is European suspicion of the de facto personal database that is social media. billion in 2016, according to an estimate from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP , a U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2017

Will adding a social media component, like the one offered by P2P service Venmo, push back against those awkward money requests among friends? Markets of all kinds could find new ways of conducting business thanks to the introduction of new payment solutions. billion in 2016, with an estimated value at $43.7

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does. We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

The company was founded in 2016. With a move that could make an increasingly crowded market more competitive, Amazon is reportedly planning to roll out a food delivery service in India. As it stands, the company rolled out Prime services in the country in 2016. Amazon’s Moves. Take Amazon, for instance.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2017

trillion mobile sessions, the year 2016 saw an average of 11 percent year-over-year (YoY) growth in mobile app usage and 69 percent year-over-year growth in terms of average time spent on apps. In 2016, session and time-spent growth in some app categories seem to have occurred at the expense of others, Flurry Analytics’ data shows.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

“By extending our expertise in all aspects of eCommerce – from marketing to merchandising to logistics – we bear the heavy lifting on behalf of our vendor partners to help them deepen customer engagement and increase sales.”. The company noted that Best4Less has experienced a 1000 percent increase in GMV since 2016.

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